Toledo summer course highlights Moroccan transition
Morocco, Culture, 7/17/2000

Participants in a summer course on transition in Morocco held in Toledo (79 km south of Madrid) this July 13-14, highlighted Morocco's commitment to a policy of change and reform in various spheres.

The course was destined to academics wishing to enrich their knowledge about Morocco and its cultural, social and human dimensions as well as to representatives of Ngos interested in the Maghreb region and development-related issues issues.

In a presentation on Moroccan transition, director of Mediterranean international studies workshop and professor in the Madrid Autonomous University, Bernabe Garcia Lopez, said that change is tangible in Morocco as evidenced by efforts to reinforce the rule of law, to set up a transparent society and an administration at the service of the citizen.

Unlike other countries in the Maghreb, Morocco has already started a demographic transition by reducing the birth rate and an economic transition by embracing the liberal system, privatization and free market, Lopez said.

The reign of King Mohammed VI, he noted, has been marked by the adoption of important decisions in various fields, adding that the issue of change in Morocco should be treated within an optimistic vision.

The two-day seminar further examined the role of the press during the transition period.

Participants underlined that the Moroccan press is living its own transition by dealing with issues of concern for the reader and contributing to the identification of the problems facing the Moroccan society.

They also pointed to constraints facing the Moroccan press such as illiteracy, low purchase power and absence of viable structures of edition, distribution and marketing.

Participants also addressed the problems of integration facing Moroccan immigrant women in the host country.

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